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[Kevin Wood]

i used to say things like ''i know i shouldnt'' as if to kind of get away from the whole ''you shouldnt smoke'' conversation

if you wanna smoke mate you jolly well smoke

i still have the occasional deck of 10 when im p*ssed lol

Hofmiester....follow the bear!

Oh, that really is a disgusting habit.

Kevin

[Sixstring]

Sorry to you smokers, but IMHO its a disgusting, smelly, harmful, and totally anti-social habit (unless you are also a smoker, and like huddling out in the cold and snow outside a pub puffing for all you are worth to get back into the warm again) and I find it completely off putting in a woman, and brown fingers and yellowing teeth with ashtray breath a complete turn-off, even if you have a stunning figure and fascinating personality!!


Sorry...........................rant over, i'm going now.

[I am a Daisy]

My mate finally decided to give up smokingby using the patches and an nasal spray type thing. He's now more adicted to the nasal thing than he was the actual cigarettes, he does want or need a smoke but get this, it costs him £20 a day for the inhaler and he has to ensure he has enough of them with him if he's going away anywhere! He now understands the meaning of addiction lol!

And heres a belter! The new term for those standing outside having their smoke is "Snoutcasts" 

And yes, I am a smoker, lol! There, I've said. Its out now and I feel better, lol!

[Amigo]

Sorry to you smokers, but IMHO its a disgusting, smelly, harmful, and totally anti-social habit (unless you are also a smoker, and like huddling out in the cold and snow outside a pub puffing for all you are worth to get back into the warm again) and I find it completely off putting in a woman, and brown fingers and yellowing teeth with ashtray breath a complete turn-off, even if you have a stunning figure and fascinating personality!!


Sorry...........................rant over, i'm going now.

You are 100% right. It's a ridiculous waste of money, health risk & downright unsociable habit. That said your opinion is hardly new. You've got what you want. We can now no longer go to pubs, restaraunts, hotels & those in offices/buildings are outlawed at work (i'm not, i'll smoke in my truck whatever...break 'em) but i hope you & those who share your opinion are happy now you've put many pubs out of business, i hope you feel good about that.

[tunnie]

i feking hate walking behind a smoker, what they breath out, and you breath in as you walk behind is all the crap they exhaled, i often just stop and wait to get some distance between me and them, or I walk faster in front.

[davethediver]

i feking hate walking behind a smoker, what they breath out, and you breath in as you walk behind is all the crap they exhaled, i often just stop and wait to get some distance between me and them, or I walk faster in front.

Well of course we paid for the tabs so we'll keep the good stuff for us

[Amigo]

I'm nearly 48 & smoked before some of you were born. So much has changed. Pubs smelt of pubs, just walking past as a smoker you could pick it up. Respectable hard working family men took their families to the pub on a sunday lunch, noon til 2pm back then, the kids were happy with coke & crisps in the car, down a few pints then drive home for roast dinner, (please spare me the drink/drive/kids in car comment) Quite right but i've heard them over & over, all i'm trying to say is some of us come from another time so try to bear with me if i get a little impatient. I don't drink drive ever nor do i condone it but i get a tad miffed when after smokers being outlawed in pubs, cinemas, eateries, work Tunnie even wants us to stop smoking in the open air???
   I know it's unpleasant for non smokers but FFS you've owtlawed 90% of our lives, be happy with what you've got & stop being so damn selfish!

[tunnie]

Tunnie even wants us to stop smoking in the open air???

To be honest, yes. In the States, smoking is banned with 100meters (if i remember correctly) of any hotel lobby/office doors with an over-hang. Which means in NYC most of the streets its banned.

I was in Tokyo last year, again, smoking on the street is banned, there are special areas on the streets outside shops, where people can smoke, but its strictly enforced. But its contained, which is great. You can walk down the street and not suddenly inhale the smoke from someone in front /passing you.

Hated coming back to London streets trying to dodge it all again, sorry Guy its not an attack on you, many of my friends smoke, but I personally want it banned in public.

[Kevin Wood]

I have to say, our local pub (which I don't visit very often, for the following reason) always used to be full of guys watching the footie on a Saturday afternoon. Most smoking, all drinking, and not just the odd pint.

Nowadays it's tumbleweed. The odd die-hard propping up the bar but I do wonder where all those punters are now? Probably in their own living rooms, smoking, drinking and watching the footie. Their kids are probably sitting on their laps instead of in the pub garden playing with the other kids and getting some exercise and fresh air. It does make me wonder what has been achieved by banning smoking in pubs?

I suppose the natural reaction of our leaders to this would be that we need to ban smoking in our own homes next?

Kevin

[skyblue]

I can see where Tunnie is coming from as I now find the smell  horrible  and often think did I smell like that ....  I know its only 2 months since I stopped aswell 

[Kevin Wood]

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Hated coming back to London streets trying to dodge it all again, sorry Guy its not an attack on you, many of my friends smoke, but I personally want it banned in public.

That's fair enough. For the purposes of argument I think motorcycles are dangerous and noisy and I want them banned in public.

Doesn't matter a jot to me if they ban both. I currently neither smoke nor ride.

As said before, though, be careful what you wish for. If you back the current (IMHO) overly prescriptive nanny state you need to be comfortable with what the eventual conclusion might be. One day it'll be a pastime you enjoy that gets canned on the whim of some do-gooder.

Now, how bad an assault is it really to pass a smoker in the street? Any worse than a noisy bike? Would you put up with one to indulge in the other?

Kevin

[tunnie]

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Hated coming back to London streets trying to dodge it all again, sorry Guy its not an attack on you, many of my friends smoke, but I personally want it banned in public.

That's fair enough. For the purposes of argument I think motorcycles are dangerous and noisy and I want them banned in public.

Doesn't matter a jot to me if they ban both. I currently neither smoke nor ride.

As said before, though, be careful what you wish for. If you back the current (IMHO) overly prescriptive nanny state you need to be comfortable with what the eventual conclusion might be. One day it'll be a pastime you enjoy that gets canned on the whim of some do-gooder.

Now, how bad an assault is it really to pass a smoker in the street? Any worse than a noisy bike? Would you put up with one to indulge in the other?

Kevin

Absolutely. Its where they draw the line, they might say kit cars are dangerous too...

As it happens bike sales are down, the Yamaha dealer in town where I did my DAS has gone bust, as did the Harley dealer up the road... 

[Amigo]

Firstly to set the record straight i like Tunnie. He's a cracking lad whose done & will continue to do very well for himself. When i was 18 i was rushed into hospital with acute appendicitis, it nearly burst...peretontis....bad news, so we could all die of anything at any time. After a week in hospital some friends bought me clean clothes washed/dried in the usual way. They fricking stank. I had'nt smoked for a week & the "clean" clothes smelt rancid. Not of fag smoke but a really unpleasant ammonia smell, it was horrible.

   Point is i know where you non smokers are coming from but you've already changed our lives beyond repair, try to give a little & cut us some slack please.

[Kevin Wood]

Absolutely. Its where they draw the line, they might say kit cars are dangerous too...

Indeed. Which is why I'm of the opinion that this nonsense has gone far enough.

Kevin

[tunnie]

Firstly to set the record straight i like Tunnie. He's a cracking lad whose done & will continue to do very well for himself. When i was 18 i was rushed into hospital with acute appendicitis, it nearly burst...peretontis....bad news, so we could all die of anything at any time. After a week in hospital some friends bought me clean clothes washed/dried in the usual way. They fricking stank. I had'nt smoked for a week & the "clean" clothes smelt rancid. Not of fag smoke but a really unpleasant ammonia smell, it was horrible.

   Point is i know where you non smokers are coming from but you've already changed our lives beyond repair, try to give a little & cut us some slack please.

I was pleased when the smoking ban came in, being tall, in small pubs smoke would always rise to the top, and like you said clothes no longer stink.

However what I did not think/realise, is its wider effect. As the rule stands, I believe your truck cab is now classified as banned for smoking?  :-/

I'm never likey to get into someone elses truck, so the do'gooders wanting smoking ban, means people like yourself can not have a quick smoke to ease tensions of London traffic 

Its odd, I like the smell of a cigar but not cigarette  :-/